Peter Gallagher goes it alone in O.C.

Gallagher didn’t want to give away too many specifics of what he’ll do in the show, but did share a bit of how it unfolds.

“I’ll tell a story and sing a song that somehow has something to do with the story,” he says. “I talk about Lemmon a lot because we were on the road in ‘Long Day’s Journey into Night’ for about a year. I had conversations with him that I’d hoped to have with my dad and I didn’t. As we worked together, he revealed to me that he had a lot of those same fears and insecurities and questions that I had, and immediately it was like a weight was taken off.

“A lot are songs that I’ve done on Broadway but some are just good songs that I’ve always wanted to sing. ‘Luck Be A Lady’ just fits with what some of these guys, Lemmon, Paul Newman, George C. Scott, have told me. ‘Don’t Give Up On Me’ (which he sang on “The O.C.”) I always sing, that one thematically works.”

It’s easier now than it was those first nights at Feinstein’s, not, mind you, that it’s ever easy.

“I’ve worked harder on this one-man show than I have anything in my whole life,” Gallagher says. “When I’m doing the show I’m kind of overcome at times with just gratitude for being able to do it.”

Peter Gallagher

What: ‘How’d All You People Get In My Room?’ a one-man cabaret-style show

Actor and singer Peter Gallagher brings his cabaret act to the Segerstrom Center for the Arts from Feb.13-15. The show titled "How'd All You People Get In My Room?" features songs interspersed with stories about his life as an actor. JAMES GALLAGHER
Actor and singer Peter Gallagher brings his cabaret act to the Segerstrom Center for the Arts from Feb.13-15. The show titled "How'd All You People Get In My Room?" features songs interspersed with stories about his life as an actor. JORDAN STRAUSS
Actor and singer Peter Gallagher brings his cabaret act to the Segerstrom Center for the Arts from Feb.13-15. The show titled "How'd All You People Get In My Room?" features songs interspersed with stories about his life as an actor. JORDAN STRAUSS

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